Computational Social Science Workshop Calendar

Fall 2018

Thursday’s, 11:00am-12:20pm, Kent 120


October 4th - Mixer with CSS Faculty


October 11th - Marc Berman

Faculty Director for the Masters in Computational Social Science Program; Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Chicago


October 18th - Zizi Papacharissi

Professor and Department Head of Communication, Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago

October 25th - Steven Durlauf

Steans Professor of Educational Policy at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies, The University of Chicago


November 8th - Charlie Catlett

Senior Computer Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy


November 29th - Lillian Lee

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Department of Information Science, Cornell University



Winter 2019

Thursday’s, 11:00am-12:20pm, Kent 120


January 10th - Ed Awh

Professor, Department of Psychology, The Institute for Mind and Biology, and the Grossman Institute for Neuroscience, Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior, University of Chicago


January 17th - Nicolas Masse

Postdoctoral Scholar and Staff Scientist, Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago


January 24th - Adam Bonica

Associate Professor of Political Science, Stanford University


January 31st - TBD


February 7th - Tor Wager

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Director of the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Colorado Boulder


February 14th - Monica Rosenberg

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Psychology, Yale University


February 21st - TBD


February 28th - TBD


March 7th - MACSS Student Conference

An Opportunity for Second Year MACSS Students to Present Their Thesis Research
2nd Year Lightning Talks
NOTE: Special Time and Location: Thursday, 5-7pm - Social Science Research Building 122



Spring 2019

Thursday’s, 11:00am-12:20pm, Kent 120


April 4th - TBD


April 11th - Abdullah Almaatouq

Ph.D. Student and Research Assistant, Computational Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)


April 18th - TBD


April 25th - TBD


May 2nd - TBD


May 9th - TBD


May 16th - TBD


May 23rd - TBD


May - 30th - TBD



Past Speakers

Winter 2018

Thursday’s, 11:00am-12:20pm, Kent 120

January 11th - Ali Hortaçsu

The Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor in Economics and the College, University of Chicago

January 18th - Anna Mueller

Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development and the College, University of Chicago

January 25th - James Evans

Director, Knowledge Lab; Professor, Sociology, University of Chicago; Senior Fellow, Computation Institute; Faculty Director, Masters Program in Computational Social Sciences, University of Chicago

February 1st - Richard Evans

Senior Lecturer in Computational Social Science; Director, Open Source Macroeconomics Laboratory; Fellow, Becker Friedman Institute, University of Chicago

February 15th - Leslie Kay

Professor, Department of Psychology and The College, University of Chicago

February 22nd - Laura Nelson

Assistant Professor of Sociology, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University

Spring 2018

Thursday’s, 11:00am-12:20pm, Kent 120

March 29th - MACSS Student Conference

An Opportunity for Second Year MACSS Students to Present Their Thesis Research
2nd Year Lightning Talks
NOTE: Special Time and Location: Thursday, 5-7pm - Social Science Research Building 122


April 5th - Chris Bail

Douglas and Ellen Lowey Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, Duke University

April 12th - Ben Golub

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University

April 26th - Paolo Parigi

Lead Trust Scientist, Airbnb

May 4th - Glen Weyl

Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, Visiting Senior Research Scholar, Yale University
Talk Title TBD
NOTE: Special Time and Location: Friday - TBD


May 10th - Kathleen Cagney

Associate Professor, Sociology; Health Studies Director, Population Research Center, NORC; Executive Committee Member, Masters in Computational Social Science Program, University of Chicago

May 17th - Andres Gomez

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for International Development, Harvard University

May 24th - Bogdan State

Data Scientist, Facebook